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So our current situation is exceptional and not steady state and can't continue indefinitely (wasn't going to anyway).

I think his main most valuable point is that the status quo can't - and that stands.

Personally chasing constant growth doesn't sound like what we need to be aiming at anyway.

It would be saner to be engineering some long term stable state that we adjust as soon as new potentials become available.

Like aiming at a fixed upper limit maximum human population on earth with an acceptable minimal standard of life as opposed to letting blind growth search out the natural feedback loops instead.




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